Rebel Without a Cause Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1955
- 111 min
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The MAN fumbles in his pocket, finds a pack and drops it in
his nervousness. The FIGURES wait until he picks it up. He
offers one to BUZZ.
MAN:
(continuing)
Filter tips.
BUZZ:
(smiling, encouraging)
Smiling uncertainly, the MAN puts the cigarette in his mouth.
BUZZ, still smiling, takes out a packet of wooden matches.
BUZZ:
(continuing)
I'll light it for you, Dad.
BUZZ ignites a match and holds it near the Man's face for a
second, searching it. Then he ignites the whole box under
his nose. The MAN shrieks, and his packages fall. BUZZ
slaps him sharply, his smile gone.
The camera pans away as the figures enclose him, and holds
on a small mechanical monkey which has dropped from its
wrappings. It begins to dance madly on the pavement, then
runs down.
The feet of the figures scatter past the unmoving monkey.
Then camera rises to show that the man has disappeared.
There is a moment of awful stillness, then we see a boy
coming down the street alone. He is quite drunk, and he
slips once. This is JIM, a good-looking kid of seventeen
with a crew-cut and wearing a good suit. The spilled
packages on the pavement stop him. He bends down to see
what they are and picks up the mechanical monkey from the
wreckage. He smiles and winds it up. He sets it on the
sidewalk and sits down. He watches it dance for a moment,
happily. A siren is heard distantly, growing louder. JIM
pays no attention to it as he winds the monkey again and
releases it for its dance.
SUPERIMPOSE TITLE: "REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE" STARRING ____ as
siren rises piercingly close, and JIM looks up, we:
DISSOLVE TO:
Close shot. Throbbing light of police car. Night. The
siren screaming wildly, then dying. The sound of brakes.
Camera moves to reveal the police car stopped at the
entrance of a Precinct Station. Two officers dismount,
bearing between them the struggling JIM. They bear him up
the steps and in through the double doors.
Inside precinct station. Reception area. A large open space
onto which several corridors converge. In the middle is a
Sergeant's desk, really a quadrangular counter in the center
of which the SERGEANT stands. There are a few glass-walked
interviewing rooms which open off the area, and several
benches lining the walls. The scene is one of confusion,
activity and waiting. Phones ring. The arrested pass in
custody of officers. Present among others at JIM's entrance
are:
JUDY, who is blonde and sixteen. She sits on a crowdedbench wearing an expression of downcast bitterness. On a
bench across the way from her are three remarkably dirty
little Mexican children without shoes or socks. The oldest
is a BOY of four who is protecting his little SISTER who in
turn mothers an infant crying on the bench beside her.
Standing at a corner of the desk is a docile, undersized boy
of fifteen named JOHN "PLATO" CRAWFORD. He is shivering.
With him is a large NEGRO WOMAN, his maid. JIM comes
through the doors and is led to the desk. One of the
officers presents a brief report to the SERGEANT, who
examines it.
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